[ctvo]

> Uber engineering has a few gems but for every 1 gem they've hired 10 or more greedy idiots, so maybe not a great example?

What an odd sprinkling of something entirely personal.

> Otherwise, be pragmatic: Learn Make, Maven, and Gradle; then you'll be well-equipped for 95-99% of cases.

There's a time and a place for Bazel. Very large monorepos like those at Pinterest and Uber, with cross dependencies, and written in multiple languages benefit a lot from the remote backend and distributed cache of built artifacts.

Make, Maven, and Gradle, even only for JVM based projects seem to not be entirely comparable.